INT COMMUNITY WILL ASSIST BOSNIAN TOWNS WHICH STIMULATE RETURN

( Editorial: --> 9234 ) MOSTAR, July 22 (Hina) - The international community has so far invested US$70 million for the return of minority peoples to 14 open cities throughout Bosnia, the spokeswoman of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia Ariane Quentier said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in Mostar, Quentier said that representatives of local authorities from Zavidovici, central Bosnia, would visit Drvar in western Bosnia on Thursday to call on displaced Zavidovici Croats, currently accommodated in Drvar, to return home. In this way the houses of displaced Drvar Serbs will be vacated enabling the return of the owners, she explained. Tomorrow municipal officials of Konjic in central Bosnia will visit Trebinje in south-eastern Bosnia to call on displaced Serbs from Konjic, currently accommodated in Trebinje, to return home, Quentier said. The UNHCR will offer huge assistance to those authorities willing to agree to the return of minority peoples, she emphasised. UN spokeswoman in Mostar Kelly Moore today condemned the biased and unfair reporting by local media and journalists. The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) office in Mostar David Foley said that OSCE's electoral sub- commission for appeals replaced two municipal councillors in Gornji Vakuf. Zdravko Maric Batinic of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia- Herzegovina and Abdulah Topcic of the Party of Democratic Action's Coalition for an Integral and Democratic BH obstructed the implementation of the results of last year's local election, Foley said. They are banned from taking any administrative duty or attending any meetings of the Gornji Vakuf Municipal Council. (hina) ha jn 221621 MET jul 98